“I ask the students would they like to pray and if they like to pray, they can lead pray themselves and then I will pray,” Nathaniel said, according to Fox 8.

Nathaniel said the company, which told the media they don’t have policies on prayer, told him to stop and also changed his route. He said he talked to parents about praying on the bus and that “no parent complained to me personally.”

The hot-button issue of prayer in school settings brought many comments online.

“The school bus is a captive audience when he is driving the bus he is acting like a school official and he does not have the right to proselytize or promote religion in that context,” she said, according to Fox 8. “He has First Amendment rights to pray he has a right to his own religion but there is no constitutional right for school officials to pray with a captive audience of students.”